Hello all! I'm involved in supporting a consortium of many small libraries that 
utilizes a single instance of Koha on a cloud host. When a new version is 
released, their limited staff have to verify that all of the customizations and 
quirks will survive the upgrade.

To facilitate this, I would like to have a process by which I create a 
near-duplicate of the server on my local virtualization system, modify it to 
suit the new environment, and then make it available for testing the upgrade. 
The system can easily handle the extra load, and I have an external IP address 
that I can assign for access. In this way, the production system can remain 
untouched until we're 100% certain that it can be upgraded without affecting 
its important functions. I managed to do this once back in 2021, but a) I did 
not document all of the steps I had to take to get it working, and b) there 
were still details I had missed that we discovered only recently. The key 
changes are the library name (?) and the domain/links used.

Before I plow down this path again—this time doing my best to cover all the 
actions and changes that need to be implemented—I thought I'd poll the 
community. Who out there has a documented process that you'd be willing to 
share? What have you done?

With gratitude for your consideration and contributions,


David Liddle
_______________________________________________

Koha mailing list  http://koha-community.org
Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

Reply via email to